A vehicle control system is applied to a vehicle equipped with a magnetic sensor configured to detect a magnetic marker on a road. The vehicle control system executes a self-driving control by which self-driving of the vehicle is controlled. The vehicle control system executes a retreat traveling control using the magnetic marker in response to the occurrence of an abnormality in at least part of components and functions necessary for the self-driving control. The magnetic marker provides guidance information by which the vehicle is guided to a safe area. In the retreat traveling control using the magnetic marker, the vehicle control system acquires the guidance information from the magnetic marker detected by the magnetic sensor and causes the vehicle to travel toward the safe area and stop at the safe area based on the guidance information thus acquired.

A sheet-shaped magnetic marker to be laid on a road surface so as to be able to be detected by a magnetic sensor attached to a vehicle to achieve assist for driving operation of the vehicle by a driver or control on a vehicle side to achieve automatic driving independently from operation of the driver has a magnet sheet (11) as a magnetism generation source and a wireless tag (2) which outputs information via wireless communication to the vehicle side. In the magnetic marker, the wireless tag (2) is interposed between a sheet (11A) and a sheet (11B) configuring the magnet sheet (11), and the entire wireless tag (2) is accommodated inside the magnet sheet (11).

A parking assistance apparatus obtains a target travelling route including a forward section and a backward section and lets a vehicle move along the target travelling route such that the vehicle reaches a target parking position. The parking assistance apparatus execute a collision avoidance processing when an obstacle which is closer than a threshold distance is detected while the vehicle moves along the target travelling route. The distance between the vehicle and a specific region is kept to be larger than a clearance distance while the vehicle moves along the backward section such that the obstacle for the collision avoidance processing which cannot be detected while the vehicle moves along the forward section will not be found while the vehicle moves along the backward section. The specific region is determined on the basis of a detection region of a sensor device for detecting the obstacle and the threshold distance.

A sheet-shaped magnetic marker (1) to be laid on a road surface so as to be able to be detected by a magnetic sensor attached to a vehicle to achieve assist for driving operation of the vehicle by a driver or control on a vehicle side to achieve automatic driving independently from operation of the driver is divided into a plurality of regions in a matrix shape by a cut line (1C) cutting a magnet sheet (11) and a nonskid layer (181), with an adhesive layer being left. Thus, if peeling partially occurs, a region including the peeled part can be isolated, and expansion of peeling can be prevented.

Disclosed herein are a method for generating a vehicle control signal based on magnetic paint lanes and an apparatus for the same. The method includes generating a magnetic sensing signal corresponding to an alternating magnetic pattern from magnetic paint lanes, performing noise filtering on the magnetic sensing signal so as to generate a magnetic sensing signal from which noise is removed, and controlling the operation of a vehicle based on the magnetic sensing signal from which noise is removed.

A vehicle control device includes a recognizer configured to recognize a surrounding environment of a vehicle including a moving object present around the vehicle and a controller configured to control at least one of a speed and steering of the vehicle. The controller restricts access to the moving object when the moving object is rotating around a vertical axis at a speed greater than or equal to a threshold value so that a front surface of the moving object recognized by the recognizer faces a position interfering with a position in a traveling direction of the vehicle as compared with when the moving object is not rotating.

A system for testing a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle is provided, wherein the driver assistance system comprises a control unit configured to process sensor signals of at least one environment sensor of the motor vehicle, wherein the environment sensor is configured to detect environmental information and convert it into sensor signals. The system comprises a vehicle test bench configured to operate at least one drive train of the motor vehicle, with at least one simulation module, wherein the simulation module incorporates at least one environment sensor and comprises a stimulation device allocated to said environment sensor. The environment sensor incorporated by in the simulation module corresponds, for example functionally and/or structurally, to the environment sensor of the motor vehicle or is the environment sensor of the motor vehicle. The simulation module is connected to the vehicle test bench in order to transmit a sensor signal from the simulation module to the control unit of the driver assistance system.

An electronic control device mounted on a vehicle includes: a sensor detectable zone-determining unit that determines a sensor detectable zone representing a zone where an environmental element present around the vehicle is detectable by a sensor mounted on the vehicle based on detection information of the sensor; a cruise control information-generating unit that generates cruise control information for the vehicle based on the detection information of the sensor and the sensor detectable zone determined by the sensor detectable zone-determining unit; and an information output unit that outputs the cruise control information generated by the cruise control information-generating unit.

A system includes a driver monitor system configured to receive information about driver operation, a relationship table comprising information about an expected relationship between driver operation and a preload force, and a driver controller configured to control a driver in response to the information about driver operation and according to the relationship table. A method of managing a preload force includes providing a first component, providing a second component for compression against the first component, operating a driver to move the first component into contact with the second component, monitoring an operation of the driver, and determining an expected preload force in response to the operation of the driver.

An autonomous vehicle configured for active sensing may also be configured to weigh expected information gains from active-sensing actions against risk costs associated with the active-sensing actions. An example method involves: (a) receiving information from one or more sensors of an autonomous vehicle, (b) determining a risk-cost framework that indicates risk costs across a range of degrees to which an active-sensing action can be performed, wherein the active-sensing action comprises an action that is performable by the autonomous vehicle to potentially improve the information upon which at least one of the control processes for the autonomous vehicle is based, (c) determining an information-improvement expectation framework across the range of degrees to which the active-sensing action can be performed, and (d) applying the risk-cost framework and the information-improvement expectation framework to determine a degree to which the active-sensing action should be performed.